TOI. Sir, here is a gentleman....
ARG. Speak in a lower tone, you jade; you split my head open; and you
forget that we should never speak so loud to sick people.
TOI. I wanted to tell you, Sir....
ARG. Speak low, I tell you.
TOI. Sir...(_She moves her lips as if she were speaking._)
ARG. What?
TOI. I tell you that...(_As before_.)
ARG. What is it you say?
TOI. (_aloud_). I say that there is a gentleman here who wants to
speak to you.
ARG. Let him come in.
SCENE III:--ARGAN, CLEANTE, TOINETTE.
CLE. Sir.
TOI. (_to_ CLEANTE). Do not speak so loud, for fear of splitting
open the head of Mr. Argan.
CLE. Sir, I am delighted to find you up, and to see you better.
TOI. (_affecting to be angry_). How! better? It is false; master
is always ill.
CLE. I had heard that your master was better, and I think that he
looks well in the face.
TOI. What do you mean by his looking well in the face? He looks very
bad, and it is only impertinent folks who say that he is better; he
never was so ill in his life.
ARG. She is right.
TOI. He walks, sleeps, eats, and drinks, like other folks, but that
does not hinder him from being very ill.
ARG. Quite true.
CLE. I am heartily sorry for it, Sir. I am sent by your daughter's
music-master; he was obliged to go into the country for a few days,
and as I am his intimate friend, he has asked me to come here in his
place, to go on with the lessons, for fear that, if they were
discontinued, she should forget what she has already learnt.
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